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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Script, pages 100-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who orders all the mothers to the "place of shame"?
(a) The Postulant.
(b) The Patriarch of Pasadena.
(c) The Arch Vicar.
(d) The Satanic Science Practitioner.

2. Which gravedigger apologizes to Dr. Poole by claiming that burying Dr. Poole was done only for fun?
(a) Chief.
(b) Flossie.
(c) Loola.
(d) Shelley.

3. What is the most obvious difference between Arch Vicar's community and the Hots?
(a) The Hots do not place restrictions on mating/romance.
(b) The Hots do not possess a written language.
(c) The Hots have a formal, highly controlling religious hierarchy.
(d) The Hots have leprous skin conditions due to radiation.

4. The narrator makes an analogy between Gandhi's nonviolence and what feature of Bob Brigg's life?
(a) His writing.
(b) His adultery.
(c) His drinking.
(d) His gambling.

5. What group of artists does Bob Briggs compare himself to in "Tallis"?
(a) The Surrealist Writers.
(b) The Baroque Composers.
(c) The Romantic Poets.
(d) The Impressionist Painters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to sexually aggressive boys in the primitive community?

2. What job is given to Dr. Poole in the primitive community?

3. What ritual is held among the primitives as a protection against deformed babies?

4. According to the narrator, what was Gandhi's "great secret"?

5. The primitives' religious leader presses a young woman about what matter, eventually beating her?

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